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Tag Archives: southern identity

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 11, 1862

White Southern Baptists continue debating what the Confederate States of America has done wrong to invoke chastisement — in the form of a drawn-out war and the hardships associated thereof — from God. The slave-based Confederacy acknowledges itself as a Christian nation: the national  motto is “Deo Vindice” (Under God, Our Vindicator), while the constitution…

November 11, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
J. D. Hufham

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 12, 2012

With the South’s race-based culture, social structures and economy at stake in what has become a lingering war, white Southern thinkers, politicians, writers and elites spend no little energy philosophically defending Southern life and speculating about the future. Defeat, at least in public discourse, is an impossible outcome of the war, for it would signal…

February 12, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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